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Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no telling who that it’s naming For the loser now will be later to win Cause the times they are a-changing

Bob Dylan, the poet laureate of the rock era, has been rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature, an honor that elevates him into the company of T. S. Eliot, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison and Samuel Beckett.

Bob Dylan is the first musician to win the award, and his selection on Thursday is perhaps the most radical choice in a history stretching back to 1901. In choosing a popular musician for the literary world’s highest honor, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, dramatically redefined the boundaries of literature, setting off a debate about whether song lyrics have the same artistic value as poetry or novels.

“Dylan has the status of an icon. His influence on contemporary music is profound, and he is the object of a steady stream of secondary literature.”

Literary scholars have long debated whether Mr. Dylan’s lyrics can stand on their own as poetry, and an astonishing volume of academic work has been devoted to parsing his music. The Oxford Book of American Poetry included his song “Desolation Row,” in its 2006 edition, and Cambridge University Press released “The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan” in 2009, further cementing his reputation as a brilliant literary stylist.

I’ve completed the 2016 Goodreads Reading Challenge, and have read about 128 of 125 books… so far – (that is just the Goodreads challenge, not Shadow Girl‘s personal goal… I am far from finished!)Just try to stop me – It’s not even October yet!

I may be 36 books ahead of [the GR] schedule, but do you realize just how many books on my 2016Must Read list are not even published yet?! (not to mention my ‘don’t judge me’list or my ‘guilty pleasure’ list – No. I have no shame).

OMG, these authors are killing me!

But, I wouldn’t want to go any other way.

Big, BIG, HUGE thanks to the minds behind the mayhem.

You guys are a large & very important part of my life, and I’m lucky enough to call many of you my friends. Thank you for the journeys so far, and I can’t wait to see where we’re going next!! P, L & N ♥ ~sg

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LET FREEDOM READ – September 22-28, 2013

I’m sharing a ton of links in this post, click everywhere!
Starting off with something fun, 12 Signs You’re A Banned Book Reader is from Epic Reads. I hope that everyone is like me and loves to see LISTS about STUFF, and that will help get more hits for this post, which will lead to more serious links about Raising Awareness and What You Can Do To Help!

1. You couldn’t care less about pigeons, doves, seagulls, or canaries, but you know it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.2. You read dystopians before Katniss was even born.3. You don’t judge people on whether they’re a good witch or a bad witch.4. You had a nervy spaz and almost duffed up a div for proposing to ban a book, even if it contained nunga-nungas or nuddy-pants. And you know exactly what that sentence means.5. Speaking of nuddy-pants, sometimes you have dreams where you lose your clothes and you don’t understand the big deal.6. And somehow, you still manage to sleep through the night to have those dreams, even after looking at this cover.7. Because you realize that sometimes the most realistic fiction is the scariest (but all the more reason NOT TO BAN IT!).8. Let’s face it––censorship really gets you down. Good thing books are your CRUTCH.9. And sometimes you’re so engrossed in reading you leave a light on in the attic.10. Economics, econometrics. . . it’s all just fancy ways of saying INTERESTING THINGS TO READ.11. You know that sometimes your greatest friends are only in your life for a short time.
And, Thinking of all my awesome blogger buddies…12. But mostly you just hang out with a bunch of WILD things!

Check out – “Banned Book Hop – Celebrating 30 years of protecting your right to read!” Blogged by Cabin Goddess.
A lot of hard work went into this, follow Cabin Goddess’s Blog!

Freedom To Read Foundation

This last century the top ten most frequently challenged and banned books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ulysses by James Joyce
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Want to get involved in #BannedBooksWeek? Defend books being challenged RIGHT NOW

AASL – BANNED WEBSITES AWARENESS
To raise awareness of the overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries, AASL has designated one day during Banned Books Week as Banned Websites Awareness Day. AASL is asking school librarians and other educators to promote an awareness of how overly restrictive filtering affects student learning.

This is a video from Khaled Hosseini reading a passage from his frequently challenged novel, The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner, was the 6th most frequently challenged novel in 2012 for homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, and being sexually explicit; and the ninth most frequently challenged book of 2008 for offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group –

#FunFact
Four of Stephen King’s books are on the top 100 Most Challenged Books:
#49 Cujo
#81 Carrie
#82 The Dead Zone
#95 Christine

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I wish I could take credit for being this clever, but, since I’m not….
This is a BUZZFEED post that I wanted to share, but because I don’t think enough people actually visit links to see posts in their entirety, I’m copying the BUZZFEED page, posted on August 16, 2013 at 3:02pm EDT & contributed by ‘a member of the BuzzFeed Community‘. Please, click the links and visit the original post. Thanks!!
P, L, & N ❤
~sg

If you’re a self-proclaimed bookworm –
(or a bibliophile in denial),
you can probably relate to these 17 problems.

#1: When someone asks you what your favorite book is and expects you to pick just one.

#2: When someone interrupts your reading.
**** Because, really, a book is basically a Do Not Disturb sign.

#3: When the movie version of a book gets everything wrong.

#4: And completely ruins your mental images of characters.

#5: When someone you like tells you they don’t like to read.

#6: When you forget to eat or sleep because a book is so good.

#7: When your favorite character dies.

**** And you pretend they’re still alive but it’s just not the same.

#8: When a book you love gets a harsh review.

#9: When an author stops writing mid-series.

#10: When someone spoils the ending of a book.
**** Or worse, the ending of an entire series.

#11: When you walk into a bookstore.

#12: When you lend someone a book and get it back in terrible condition.

#13: Or never get it back at all.

#14: When you finish a book and have to wait a year for the sequel.

#15: When a book makes you cry hysterically in public and everyone thinks you’re crazy.

#16: When no one gets your obscure literary reference.

#17: When someone says you read too much.
**** Because you know there’s no such thing as too many books.